i disagree with that. yea everybody knows that the knicks havent played up to there potential but curry is the franchise player. every move isiah makes is because of curry. i feel as curry goes the knicks goes. for example, the year with larry brown curry played horrible and look what happened we won 23 games. last year, even tho curry played like an all-star i still feel he was average. and what happened, we won 33 games. u see the pattern. now if he plays as good as i really think he can. we will be one of the best teams in the east. and if your are wondering how good i think curry can be, i think he can be an all time great center.

Let it be a true team and not some player and 11 other guys like it is in Cleveland and LA.

The franchise player will be the one who puts the team on his shoulders and makes a playoff run culminating into a championship.

i disagree with u again. as far as im concerned, whether a team is good or bad every team has a franchise player. and theres no such thing as a player putting the team on his back and carrying them. every team that won championships had 2 or more hall-famers on the squad. except for a very teams, like the pistons in 2004.

i disagree with u again. as far as im concerned, whether a team is good or bad every team has a franchise player. and theres no such thing as a player putting the team on his back and carrying them. every team that won championships had 2 or more hall-famers on the squad. except for a very teams, like the pistons in 2004.

who is the other HOFer on the Spurs when they won their titles? I'm talking about after David Robinson.

And Curry is our franchise player at this point. He's currently the center of the franchise. We run our offense through him, we trade and draft according to his strengths and weaknesses (along with the strengths and weaknesses of the team as a whole.

Maybe we have different definitions of a franchise player but mine is simple, the center of the franchise. The only teams I can think of that don't have a franchise player are the Charlotte Bobcats and Sacramento Kings.

I think some of you are confusing "the franchise player" with "the top player".

Eddy Curry is not yet a franchise guy.

the franchise player is the best player on the team. duncan, kobe, wade, lebron, melo, and many more are the franchise players and they are the best players on there team. i think your meaning of a franchise player is a player of the caliber of the guys i just mentioned. if thats the cause then your right, curry isnt at that level. but my opinion is that every team has franchise player. whether the team is good or bad every team has a franchise player.

the franchise player is the best player on the team. duncan, kobe, wade, lebron, melo, and many more are the franchise players and they are the best players on there team. i think your meaning of a franchise player is a player of the caliber of the guys i just mentioned. if thats the cause then your right, curry isnt at that level. but my opinion is that every team has franchise player. whether the team is good or bad every team has a franchise player.

Your problem is that you do not know what a franchise player is.

A franchise player is MUCH more than the team's best player. Put together a bad team and their best player might not even start on a contending team. How many best players on college teams will not even make it in the NBA? Many do not even get drafted into the NBA.

A franchise player is one that you can build a team around and one that can consistently lift the team on his shoulders to win key games. Franchise players can make up for bad teams with their superior effort, heart and skill. Michal Jordan, Kareem-Abdul Jabar, Shack (in his prime) are a few good examples.

Curry may or may not turn out to be that type of player -- but he is not there yet. I recall him winning one game with a three-point shot. How many games did he win with his offence or defence? He has yet to win games consistently.

Curry's defence also has a long way to go. He is not even a complete player. In fact, he often does not play in the last few minutes when the game is on the line. No body sits their franchise player then when they are needed most. Curry is not yet a franchise player or even a two-way player yet. A franchise player is not a one-way player who can only score.

Jamal Crawford, so far is as close to being a franchise player as the Knicks have, because of his willingness, ability and record of wining games down the stretch. But I would not call him a franchise player yet either.

The only franchise players on the Knicks so far are Isiah Thomas and Walt Frasier! These two greats carried their teams to several NBA championships, but unfortunately, now they are the Knick's coach and broadcast analyst.